Combined calendar and letter-box



Patented July 4, 1882.

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IN VENTOR fw g ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM' L. CALDWELL,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 260,531, dated July 4, 1882. Application filed January 23, 1882. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. CALDWELL, of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Combined Calendar and Bill or Letter Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure -1 represents a piece of paper or cardboard cut, creased, and otherwise suitably prepared to form a combined calendar and bill or letter box in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a partly-broken front view of said box, and Fig. 3 transverse vertical section thereof on the irregular line as .r in Fig. 2.

This invention consists in a box constructed to hold within its front and to expose successively through an aperture in its front a series of calendar-cards for the several months and days of the week' throughout the year, and having a chamber or space in the rear for bills, letters, or other documents, the whole forming a very useful-and convenient appendage for counting-house and business use generally.

The invention also consists in the construction of said box from one sheet or piece of paper or card-board, whereby the same may be produced at such reduced cost as to make it a convenient gift, article for advertising purposes.

In Fig. 1 is represented a piece of paper or card-board cut on its one edge, a a, to form an ornamental top to the box, and with slits b b and 0 running inward from its opposite edge, and flaps d e, having hook-shaped extremities f g. It has also slots or incisions h 2' cut in it for reception of thetongues or hooked portions f g, and is creased to fold as at 70, l, m, m, a, and 0. Said piece of paper or card-board likewise has a square or oblong opening, "r, out in it for exposure of the calendar-cards, and parallel strips of Wood or other material, 8 8, secured to it on its inside face outside of the creases m m. Thus cut and creased the paper is folded in direction of its creases, the portion a forming the front of the box, the portions b b an inner divided bottom, the portion b a full-sized bottom re-enforcing the divided bottom 11 b, the portion 0 an outer bottom, the portion d the back of the box, and the portions 6 e the sides thereof. After the paper or card-board has been thus folded the flaps d and e are folded over at the back of the box and their tongues or hooked extremities f g entered through the incisions hito hold the whole firmly together, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings. Thus constructed or folded, without gum or cement for securing it, the box, which has an open top, is ready for use, the strips 8 sforming a vertical divided space in frontfor exposure successively through the opening 1 of a series of removable and reversible or other suitable calendar-cards, 'v '0, which may be printed to constitute a perpetual calendar, and said box forming inthe rear of such card-space a receptacle or space, w, for bills or letters.

Not only is this combined calendar and bill or letter box cheap and easily constructed and secured after the manner of a pocketbook, but the connection of a calendar with a billor letter box affords the most ready convenience for properly dating the bills or letters received within the box.

The paper or card-board of which the box is made may, if desired, be covered or faced with leather or other suitable material.

. Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An open-topped box having the divisionstrips 8 s and hole r, in combination with a series of removable and reversible cards, 1;, whereby a perpetual calendar and bill or letter space are formed, as described.

2. A combined calendar and bill or letter box constructed from a blank of paper or cardboard having cuts 1) b 0, forming bottom flaps, b b b, and incisions ht in it, creased as at k, l, m, n, and 0, provided with an aperture, r, in its front portion, a, and with parallel strips 8 3 outside of the creases m m, and formed with flaps d e, having tongued or hook-shaped extremities f g, essentially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

WILLIAM L. CALDWELL.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK KURTH, A. S. LOVENDAL. 

